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Appendix: Top 25 DVD-As also outsell counterpart CDs on Amazon.com

Still in a "low-tech" presentation (sorry Metralla), here's the top 25 DVD-Audio on Amazon.com ranked by ASR, as of 4 May 2003.

I think this deserves an update, because my post on Amazon.de was incomplete. In my previous post above, I indicated that the average ASRs were much lower on Amazon.com than on Amazon.de. This is true, but only for pop/rock releases. When I investigated a little further, the major difference on the US website is that there are 7 classical releases within the top 25 DVD-Audio titles.

So if you inlude classical releases, the Top 25 DVD-Audio titles also outsell their CD counterpart on Amazon.com

Even if you exclude classical releases that do not have a CD counterpart, the average ASR of the top DVD-Audio titles is still better than the average ASR of the CD counterparts (although by a smaller margin)

Note: I re-checked the ASRs on Amazon.de, and if you include classical titles in the sample, only one title makes it to the Top 25 (Beethoven Barenboïm Symph 9, at the 23rd position), all the other classical titles floating in the lower ranks. So the sales of DVD-Audio on the German website reflect a more pop/rock audience, while sales on the US website reflect a more balanced audience, with both pop/rock and classical.

Rank Artist / Title DVD-A CD
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1. Yes / Fragile 976 6,159
2. ELP / Brain Salad Surgery 1,099 7,546
3. Immersion DVD-Audio 1,292 (na)
4. Fleetwood Mac / Say You Will 1,950 6
5. Fleetwood Mac / Rumours 2,016 610
6. Metallica / Metallica 3,547 475
7. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 9 4,177 (na)
8. Blue Man Group / Audio 4,328 637
9. Deep Purple / Machine Head 5,544 3,644
10. Fourplay / Fourplay 5,592 23,298
11. Doors / LA Woman 6,044 8,346
12. Faith Hill: / Cry 6,140 338
13. Dvorak / Harnoncourt / Simph 9 6,369 50,147
14. Mahler / Zubin Mehta / Symph 2 6,943 94,787
15. Eagles / Hotel California 7,454 1,196
16. Bach / Koopman / Organ Spectacular 7,746 (na)
17. REM / Automatic 8,146 912
18. The Nightfly 8,786 2,937
19. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 1+2 8,860 (na)
20. Cooder Ry / Buena Vista Social Club 9,673 177
21. Queen / NIght at the Opera 9,675 2,395
22. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 7+8 10,246 (na)
23. Foreigner / Foreigner 10,484 17,718
24. Tchaikowski / 1812 Ouverture 11,055 (na)
25. Parsons / I Robot 11,105 4,104
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Average (Top 25) 6,370 11,865


Average (top 50) 14,043 8,114
Average (79 refs) 82,624 11,180


Close followers

Rank Artist / Title DVD-A CD
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26. Coltrane / Blue Train 11,917 3,759
27. Steely Dan / 2 Against Nature 12,745 6,979
28. Elvis / #1 Greatest Hits 13,977 203
29. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 3 14,131 (na)
30. Merchant N / Tigerlily 14,713 1,897

Source: Amazon.com website


I hope this is useful to someone

Best

Eric




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